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Quote by: whydoumockme I have a question?.....where does it say or it is proven that creationism and evolution don't go hand in hand with explaining our existence......I’ve studied evolution and the bible.....I wonder, in the bible it says one day in heaven is a thousand years on earth...I believe that because the knowledge of time was a little less then it is now that they really meant a million years......I know that "humans" have been on this earth a little over 7 million years and around 2.5 million years ago "humans" underwent a "mutation" that brought about bigger brains and all that stuff......what I don't get is why when it says in the bible that God molded man out of clay (dirt from the earth, which we are proven to be made out of) that this process didn't take millions of years.....I personally don't believe that we just poofed out of thin air....but that God molded us over along period of time into what we are now….why couldn’t this process of “evolution” be God “molding” his perfect creation……I know after I post this people will find flaws in my idea…..but I believe that we’ll never find the answer because God doesn’t want us to…..if we were to find all the answers to our questions then there will be no need for him……then he’ll be lonely….so I don’t believe that my little idea explains much…..but it’s just an idea |
No one has or can prove that they cannot go hand in hand. The issue is that science and religion are two different realms of human activity. Science can only explain what it can observe, measure, test, and/or manipulate and can only explain that with reference to other factors that it can observe, measure, test, and/or manipulate. An Intelligent Designer, as advocated by the ID advocates, decidedly does not fill that bill -- particularly given that the IDCers (ID Creationists) claim that we should not and cannot inquire as to the identity of the IDer nor the processes by with the IDer designed and operationalized the designs. By contrast, science also operates on the principle of parsimony: it does not make assumptions or attempt explanations unnecessarily. Since science has not found the need to assume design in most of biology (with the exception, of course, of domesticated animals and others to which humans have applied their own intelligence, whether or not they realized that this influenced the animals' "design"), it does not assume design. It
does not claim that design is disproven, and in fact cannot be disproven. Even the most natural-looking reaction in fact
could be designed.
As to theology, most mainstream religions have no problem with evolution.